Example sentences of "just a little " in BNC.
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1 | Certainly , just a little low ‘ g ’ on the approach would have made things very difficult for him and I often wonder exactly what happened . |
2 | JUST a little ditty penned by beer poet laureate Rex Tyler , a prolific rhymster with an entire anthology of odes for all the 70 bottled beers sold in his extraordinary store . |
3 | I am just a little girl , I have n't even started my periods yet and little girls can tantrum louder and then can sulk deeper than anything else in the universe . |
4 | ‘ Just a little notice , gnädige Frau , ’ he begged . |
5 | One member had described the work she does as ‘ just a little job ’ . |
6 | McLeish repressed the malicious thought that this event might put Francesca 's nose just a little bit out of joint . |
7 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
8 | Will you kiss me , or will you be unkind just a little while ? |
9 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
10 | Or there 's just a little honey left ? |
11 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |
12 | He 's just a little creep who saw his chance , that 's all . |
13 | Look how that flower is just a little bit of wire hovering over her hat . ’ |
14 | Besides , the hyacinth jersey was an older woman 's dress , adding just a little frailty . |
15 | It was just a little lie , SHe thought . |
16 | ‘ Just a little boy , ’ Zambia said . |
17 | It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day . |
18 | ‘ My game was just a little bit off in all departments . |
19 | THE IMPROVEMENT in Safeway 's wines over the past few years is a continual source of pleasure to me , and each time they show their wine range to the world I turn up expecting just a little bit more . |
20 | This is a very small sample of labouring class poetry in the eighteenth century , for as A. J. Sambrook observes with just a little exaggeration : ‘ … since the discovery in 1730 of Stephen Duck … hardly a year had passed without some peasant poet being brought forward and hailed as a ‘ natural genius ’ . ’ |
21 | The governors have power and responsibility , with just a little encouragement they can also become a most enthusiastic supporters club . |
22 | With just a little encouragement secondary schools will share their swimming pool , their mini-bus , laboratories and workshops and allow the primary school to tap into specialist knowledge and expertise . |
23 | The way she did her mother was the best , though , catching that tiny lisp she had and the way her English was just a little bit awkward . |
24 | ‘ My new book is long , not just a little pamphlet . |
25 | Was it when we started to feel just a little grown-up , and asked people Round To Dinner ? |
26 | It is symbolic of the attitude that injecting insulin need not be frightening or difficult and can be coped with by the patient from the very beginning , with just a little guidance . |
27 | But today the diary is regarded much more as an appointments aide-mémoire , and for the ‘ ordinary ’ person the keeping of a detailed diary of daily events would probably be regarded as just a little eccentric and perhaps even self-centred . |
28 | The work was fairly easy — just a little movement , not the high kicking style of the true Tiller line . |
29 | Leg and arm muscles should be exercised just a little bit longer after they feel tired , and tendons and muscles should be well stretched . |
30 | ‘ Oh , just a little piece from Sharpness . |